Peshawar (PTI): A bomb blast near a police patrol killed at least five people and injured 21 others in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday in the latest attack on security personnel in the country.

The bomb exploded close to the police patrol in Dera Ismail Khan city, the Dawn newspaper quoted police official Mohammad Adnan as saying.

Rescue official Aizaz Mehmood said five people were killed and another 21 suffered wounds.

It is not known if any of the police personnel were among the victims.

Pakistan has witnessed an uptick in terror activities in recent months, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan after the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan ended its ceasefire with the government in November last year.

On October 31, a policeman was killed after unknown militants opened fire on a police camp in Dera Ismail Khan. The same day, two soldiers were killed in an IED blast in the South Waziristan district.

In July, as many as 12 soldiers of the Pakistan Army were killed in separate military operations in the Zhob and Sui areas of Balochistan.

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New Delhi (PTI): A 40-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly ramming a car into a police barricade and injuring a constable in northwest Delhi's Rohini, police said on Friday.

The incident took place on December 24 in Sector 11 of Rohini where a barricade had been placed, they said.

According to police, a caller informed them that a female driver, apparently drunk, had hit a police constable with her car.

A police team rushed to the spot and found the white car that had struck the barricade.

The woman, a resident of Sector 16, Rohini, was found to be under the influence of alcohol, police said.

Constable Rohit, posted with the 1st Battalion of the Delhi Armed Police, who suffered injuries in the collision, was taken to BSA Hospital for treatment, police said.

They said the woman, who works in the private sector, was returning home from a birthday party when the incident occurred.

She was arrested, and her car was seized, they said.